Anger: The Devil Within And Without

Monday, August 15, 2016

Anger: The Devil Within And Without

Contemporary society’s single biggest course is anger and all its ramifications; including violence, social and individual stress and physiological and psychological ailments.

“Anger is an emotional state that varies in intensity from mild to intense fury and rage” according to Charles Spielberg (a psychiatrist who specialize in the study of anger)Like other emotions, it is accompanied by physiological and biological changes  . When you get angry. Your heart beat and blood pressure go up, as do the levels of your energy hormones, adrenaline and noradrenalin.

Anger can be caused both by external and internal events.

Mundane irritants overtly manifesting themselves can make a person fall prey to anger (external anger) Worrying and brooding over personal problems can trigger internal mental unrest giving vent to anger.

The instinctive natural way of expressing anger is to respond aggressively. Anger is a natural adoptive reprise to threats. It inspires powerful often aggressive feelings and behavior , which allow us to fight and defend ourselves when we are attacked. A certain amount of anger. Therefore is necessary for our survival.

On the other hand we cant physically lash out at every person or object that irritates or annoys us; laws, social norms and commonsense place limits on how far our anger can take us.

People use a variety of both conscious and unconscious processes to deal with angry feelings . the three main approaches are (a)expressing; b)suppressing and c) calming Anger is expressly visible when for example provocation triggers visible retaliation, it is seen to be suppressed when a subject does not permit his feelings to be overtly seen. Thus a person even though seething with indignation- prefers to suffer silently or takes to brooding.

Attempting to clam a triggering or triggered temper by a strategy involving yogic exercise , deep breathing and mediation are, perhaps he best means of controlling temper and there is enough empirical evidence to make the above means sufficiently credible.

Yet another method of containing anger is through “cognitive restructuring” Simply put, it means changing the way we think .Angry people articulate themselves, loaded with curses and swear words or worse still, physical assaults . Such emotions are injurious to the person throwing up the temper tantrums, on the one hand, while inviting the irk of the opponent. Negative thoughts which becomes visible as swear words or physical assaults should be replaced by rational ones. For instance ,instead of telling yourself. “Oh its awful, its terrible, every thing is ruined”, tell yourself its frustrating and it’s understandable that you are upset about it, but it is not the end of the world and getting angry is to going to fix it anyhow

Logic defeats anger, because anger, even when it appears to be a natural corollary to a provocative cause can fast become irrational. therefore , one should maintain an unruffled calm even though provoked “beyond limits” This may appear “easier said than practiced” but such a behavioral mode can ensure social cordiality and sound health. Also overcoming such turbulence raises the social status of those involved, since they tend more to be stereotyped as dignified and erudite men and women, with a high level of maturity.

“Anger is evil, even when it can do no injury, when it can injure there is no greater evil, Anger kills both laughter and joy, what greater foe is there than anger? Those who gives way to anger are like the dead. Those who are free from anger are free from death –(courtesy East and West Series)

Sacred talk Golden Rules

He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool-shun him.

He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple-teach him

He who knows and knows not he knows , he is asleep –awaken him

He who knows and knows that he knows, he is wise-follow him.

There are two rules on the spiritual path: Begin and Continue.

No one’s head aches when he is comforting another –Indian Proverb

You can’t prevent the birds of sadness flying over your head but you can prevent them from nesting in your hair

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

What you are , never ends . What you have does.

Quote from the true charm and power of Vedanta

With the growth of devotion the mind is freed from the agitations of instinctive passions like greed and sexuality-the products of Rajas and Tamas-ad gets establish in the peace and poise of Satya

When the Supreme Should is thus intuited within oneself, the knots of the heart that make one feel oneself as an ego (one with the body) are severed; the doubt of the mind are dispelled; and all the accumulated Karmas of the past as also those in the offing are liquidated.  Courtesy Geeta Darshan

But, if He exists? 

I drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.

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